Bridle Track — Hill End to Bathurst.

Gulgong, Hill End, Bathurst — via the Bridle Track.

Is this better than Barry Way?

After two days of rain, we made the most of the perfect riding weather heading home from Gulgong via Hill End and the magnificent Bridle Track.
I rate this ride — it’s a bit like the Snowy River Road and Barry Way — pretty easy riding (graded, dusty surface), lots of narrow cliff-face bends, and riding along a beautiful river and scenery. But the Bridle Track also boasts much steeper mountainous riding.

I’d recommend riding it mid-week rather than on weekends when there might be more traffic. I’d hate to meet a large 4-wheel drive on one of those blind-narrow corners! And if you prefer riding uphill, Bathurst to Hill End is the best direction. Also, as you wind around the mountains, the cliff face finds its way on both sides of the road, so it’s not like Snowy River Road, where the cliff face is on the North side; on the Bridle Track, it changes from side to side.

Monaghan's Bluff is very very steep with switchbacks.
From Hill End, we started with some morning fog which cleared to a perfect blue sky soon after the Turon River Crossing. We had our usual morning tea (coffee) in Bathurst Park before heading through the ‘road-worked’ Trunkey Creek ride, lunch at Goulburn and home capping off a great trip with the 500km day.

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